Do you know that out of the two thousand and plus candidates contesting for 272 seats, there are around 180 candidates who have criminal cases registered against them and another 120 candidates who have serious cases of murder, kidnapping and crime against women pending in various courts. Incidentally BJP has highest number of such candidates when compared to Congress and AAM ADMI parties.
Our discomfort against the political parties is always there, yet we religiously elect them back and they in turn continue to exploit our gullibility. I am sure our political tolerance has a major role play in in preserving our Democracy.
The right purpose of Democracy is to choose a candidate who you deem fit to take the ownership of keeping the city clean and healthy. Therefore if right to vote is your statutory responsibility then the right to reject a candidate is your fundamental right of speech and expression. We have till now either voted the party ignoring the candidate or simply stayed out of the election system by not casting our vote
If you do not want to vote this Sunday because there is no good candidate, you should still go ahead and show your descent with the option of NOTA. For the first time this MCD poll gives you an option to reject. Using NOTA option does not oblige you to choose a lesser of two evils Further the number of NOTA votes sends a discrete message to political parties over the choice of their candidates.
So please if you are unable to make a right choice of candidate use the NOTA option and express your discomfort with politics, Remember if you don't bother to act you lose your right to complain. So get involved to answer Beyond "NOTA" can Delhi Dream?
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